EIT Culture & Creativity: Open Call - Acceleration and Post-Acceleration programmes

Open Call: Acceleration and Post-Acceleration programmes. Objective EIT Culture & Creativity launches its 2025 call for applications for two tailored business support programmes designed to accelerate the growth of promising start-ups and scale-ups in Europe’s cultural and creative sectors and industries (CCSI). Programme Segments: Shape Programme (Acceleration): For start-ups looking to refine their business models, enhance market strategies, and secure investment. Scale Programme (Post-Acceleration): For scale-ups seeking to expand their business operations, raise capital, and establish a strong presence in international markets. With a focus on five key sectors — fashion, architecture, cultural heritage, audio-visual media, and gaming — this call offers high-potential ventures the opportunity to scale their impact, compete for financial prizes, prepare to raise funds, and expand across international markets. Scope and topics of the call The call for Acceleration (Shape) and Post- Acceleration (Scale) programmes support start-ups, scale-ups and SMEs in their growth plans through group training, expert coaching, investment readiness and more. It also provides beneficiaries with the opportunity to access financial prizes of up to €60,000. Projects must tackle challenges in at least one of EIT Culture & Creativity’s priority areas: audio-visual media, fashion, architecture, gaming or cultural heritage. The expected outcome is...